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Chicago examiner saturday Chicago may 4 1912 rtlitterad m pripf dnf f"fnt delivered by ca.rier u s patent ffice * i\iv-i-i v/ni l_,lm i __ cenl . per wultl , saturday vol x no 116 a m hundreds died on titanic locked in steerage man tried to climb over the closed gates but officer beat him back says pas senger before the senate lifeboats were not properly equipped with compass and provisions swears sailor in london wreck inquiry tbw yore may 3 the charge that itmdreds of men women and children m Ã¼b steerage of the titanic were locked o their quarters while the liner was sink in wise made to chairman william alden smith of the senate investigating commit tee to-day by daniel buckley who was m the steerage buckley boarded the ti tanic at queenstown on the night of the accident i heard a noise like a severe jar he said to-day tt got out of my bunk snd felt my feet tsttlng wet the ship was leaking badly just then two sailors came running along yelling you'd better get ont nu its yon want to get drowned i started for the steerage deck then i thought of life preservers bnt did not have one so i started back bnt was driven away by the water which was up to the third or fourth step leading from our room steerage gates locked afler this i started back for the stem steerage deck i found the gates locked ne man tried to climb over them but m officer of the boat pushed him back then we all rushed forward and broke down the gate i got into lifeboat xo 0 a woman m the boat threw a shawl over me when we got on the carpathia a fire man from the titanic said he did not hink we had bit an ireberg but that we were forcing pressure that this caused the boilers to burst and that the explosion tore a bole m the side of the titanic steamer represented at inquiry london jlny o the international seamen union today demanded repre sentation at the governments inqniry into ths tuanic disaster which is being con ducted by lord mersey and five wreck commissioners at the london scottish drill hall l'pon making inquiries lord mersey ascertained that 228 members of the crew of the ill-fated titanic were union men and that 77 of these had beeu saved he thereupon granted the union's request attorney general sir rufus isaacs out lined the government's case by saying that he would introduce evidence to show that there wii dangerous ice in the lane which the titanic was traversing and that he will bring before the court evidence to show that warnings of icebergs and ice growlers were given to the titanic by the baltic and caronia on the day of the disaster he would also show the court he said that a southerly marine route was available for vessels at the time of year when ice floes and bergs made the northern channel dangerous 1 wish to emphasize to the court the importance of the fact thai after being warned of the icebergs the titanic did not educe her speed said the attorney general lifeboats not properly equipped james jewell a seaman testified that some of the lifeboats were not filled to their complement and that they were not properly equipped with compasses lights nor provisions when they were put from the sinking ship joseph scarrolt an able seaman on the titanic followed jewell on the stand bcarrott said he was put m charge of one of ibe lifeboats aboul twenty men made a rush and tried lo get into the boat ' sa id the wit ness they were foreigners and did not seem to understand what was said tc them 1 knocked down three of them with ihe boat's tiller chief officer murdoik fired several shots between the lifeboats wlili-h were swinging from the davit guys and the ship's side as warning that none should try to get into the small boats until told to do so funerals held m halifax halifax x s may 3 wholesale burial of the titanic dead lias to-day narked auother stage is the closing chap ter of the world's greatest sea disaster sixty bodies were made ready for inter u;ent m halifax cemeteries early to day end shortly after 9 o'clock the first fu neral services were beld m st mary's cathedral where a funeral mass wjpa celai brated by the rev dr foley to-day's burials were forced by the con dition of the bodies many wÂ»ie em balmed hurriedly on tte mnckuy-beunetr and these have been so affected iy the warm weather of the last two days that dr finu the medical examiner ordered their interment several of the bodies over which rervlces were held to-day were identified hut not claimed while others were prepared for interment m halifax by order of the white star officials eight die in floods near baton rouge mississippi river breaks through the levee inundating vast sugar acreage new orleans la may ::.â€” eight lives were lost to-day wheu the mississippi river broke through the levee at isor gansea twenty miles above baton rouge the flood waters are sweeping ovur the rich sngar plantations and will do great property damage m point coupee west baton rouge iberville and m the parishes to the southward the levees at baton rouge are weai anl m danger of going out according fo the reports of state engineers who with gov ernor sanders made a personal inspection of the dikes m the neighborhood of the capital to-day they assert that the wails will not hold twenty-fonr hours cairo 111 may 3 feeling grearjy en conraged that cairo will secure the s^o 000 appropriation from the government to aid m raising and strengthening the levees seven of the ten cairoites whe went to washington to battle for the assistance re turned home early this morning sunday night they will go to memphis to appear by appointment monday morniug beforu major smith m charge of the river work in this territory to get the work of re pairing the breaks m the drainage district levees started at once the government allotted 75,000 for these repairs the river marks forty-nine feet and lite-tenth at cairo to-night and barring rains wilt probably come to a stand by to-morrow night shots halt auto bandits fusillade greets four who break i drug store window 1 four robbers traveling m a high-powered automobile fled after they had thrown a padded brick through the front window of the drug store of robert l heller 455 east fiftieth street early this morning wheu a fusillade of shots was fired nt tbem the robbers stopped the car m front of the drug store and while the one who drove the machine kept the en gine running and the muffler wide open the other members of the band threw the brick through the window one of five automobile bandits was cap tured thursday night by policemen crtm mings and dolan of the lake street sta tion following the robbery of a pedestrian at west madison and loomis streets when bis accomplices turned on the power and escaped on sight of the policemeu the prisoner gave the name of frauk wolf thirty-four years old 133(1 west monroe street flower fund pair held must face trial on charge of operat ing confidence game henry mahany 769 lake avenue and his wife margaret who are said by the police to have collected money from busi ness men for more than a year on the rep resentation it was to be used to buy flow ers to decorate the graves of soldiers were held to the grand jury on charges of op erating a confidence game by municipal judge scully m the l'nglewood court yes terday they pleaded not guilty al though many ot those who had contributed sums ranging from si to 3 identified them mabany and bis wife were arrested thurs day afternoon by detectives after they had asked b coffey a saloonkeeper at hal sted and sixty-third streets to help them decorate the graves of old soldiers it is charged tbey represented that the flower fund was iv charge of the g a r city employes owe 6,000 loan agents unable to collect ask comptroller's aid loan agents it is said are having their troubles with county employes who have failed to pay their debts according to an official estimate made yesterday there are 200 men employed by the county who are constantly m debt to the loan agents one alleged agent called on deputy comp troller frank ryan yesterday and pre sented him a list of men who were in debted to him m amounts from 22 to 252 each the tolal was between 5,000 and s6.ow mr ryan told the man that he could lend him no assistance quits wife goes to jail six months says judge when hus band refuses his support the cause of rebellious husbands re ceived a setback yesterday when municipal judge walker sentenced andrew leonard | 47:;0 south marshfield avenue to fix 1 months m the bridewell for wife abandon | men i | i am goins to give you half an hour to thiuk this matter over either you will promise to support your wife or i will send you to jail said the judge it doesn't require any consideration returned leonard i simply will not sup port her six months said the court pacific steamer sinks portland ore may b the steamer george r vosburg running between as toria and tillamook ore was wrecked to-day on the spit at xebalem bay ore reports received here say the boat went down m a heavy storm while towing n barge it is feared that the crew of about ten men was lost no dÂ«*tris ara avail able the scene of the wreck being alncost tnaccesslble wayman ousts 2 aids to avenge his defeat guenther a deneen man and day backed by g&lpin are the first to go more heads are to fall state's attorney resents peas'3-deneen-busse ac tivity m governor race state attorney wayman took revenge 01 the deneen-tease-busse machine yester day for his defeat in the race for the re publican nomination for governor he mcd the ax on two assistant state's attorneys kfward s day and george h guenther whose political backing came from the iuner circles of the machine bosses deneen himself who del'ealed wayman m the gubernatorial race was gnuitber's backer and homer galpin an other machine man was the backer of day guenthÂ»r was a holdover from de ncen's own dmim<stration as state's at torney when the struggle of wayman to attain the gubernatorial nomination proved futile he decided to discontinue the favors which had been accorded to deneen and galpin m the retention of guenther and day on the pay roll of the state's attorney's of ! fiee | four more on the list day and guenther say they personally supported wayrnan's candidacy but this is said to have had no weight with mr wayman and both have to walk the plank it is said that the ax will fall again iv a few days and that four other assistant states attorneys will lose their official heads there was much speculation m the criminal court building yesterday as to the identity of the others doomed and the question on every lip was who is to be the next mr day was notified yesterday that be would be officially dismissed at the end i of this month shortly after he had been called to the office of the state's attorney and noti fied that his place would be filled bÂ«v an other guenther an assistant state's at torney for the last eight years was noti : fied that he would be dropped wftile ad ; mitting that assistant state's attorney i day would be discharged at the end of the present month state's attorney wayman ; denied that be also had notified guenther mr guenther is to resign at the end of this mouth he said i have not discharged him the dismissal of day is merely a desire on my part to make certain changes m my office which i think necessary day six years m office assistant state's attorney day who has been connected with the state's attorney's office for the last six years is said to have contributed toward the campaign fund of his superior besides having worked m his interest during the recent campaign when he was called before mr wayman according to reports circulated about the criminal court buildiug he was told that he was being dismissed to make way for auother man when guenther left mr wayrnan's office rumors were circulated at first to the effect that he had offered his resignation as mr wayman subsequently declared then that like day he was dismissed ! it is true 1 am to leave the state's attorney's office and my resignation will go into effect about july 1 said attorney j guenther last night i decided some time ago to enter private practice i under stand mr day also decided many mouths ago to do the same mr day could not be reached last night brave kills indian agent coahuila tribe trlea to lynch slayer of w h stanley los angeles may 3 lndian super intendent william h stanley is dead at his home m san jacinto as the result of a bullet wot id received yesterday during the progress of an indian powwow on the oahuila reservation stanley was pre siding ov_r a conference between the tribesmen seeking to arbitrate a division of indian lands when ambrosio appapas a renegade indian became suddenly en rayed and seizing a revolver from one of ! the indian guards shot stanley through i the body appapas rash act so enraged the tribesmen that only quick work on the part of the indian police prevented them \ taking summary vengeance on the mur jderer wpo had defiled their traditions jail boys as auto thieves police blame them for loss of ma chines n hyde park with ihe arrest of four young men by the police of the hyde park station lieu tenant thomas believes he has the leaders of a gang of automobile thieves who have been stealing automobiles m the hyde park kenwood and woodlawn districts during the last year two of the boys were arrested iv the woodlawn district as they were abandoning a stolen automobile at east sixty-second street and washing ton avenue they are julian lelth twen ty-two years old james g o'ronrke six teen years old ; kenneth devore seventeen years old lyle e browu nineteen years old fibe panic threatens patients in wesley prompt action of doctors and nurses prevents serious re ' suits m hospital blaze starts on roof blamed to spontaneous com bustion m small house filled with oils the lives of 175 patients at wesley hos pital 244 south dearboru rtreet were en dangered last night iv a fire believed to have been caused by spontaneous combus tion m the paint house on the roof of th six-story structure the fire was confined to the paiut bouse the pres nee of amd of internes and nu.'ses prevented a panic and so quietly did the firen.Â«n work that only five patients m a ward on the sixth floor were aware of the fire the fire was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock by an orderly ou the sixth floor who heard the crackling of flames and a slight explosiou on the roof avis orderly and dr m m xeilson the physician m charge went to the roof to investigate mrs m dunne the switchboard operator summoned an engine company after turn ing on a set of red lights on each floor of the institution these lights used as a fire signal warned orderlies nurses and internes of the are and rolling chairs and beds were made ready to remove patients if necessary several internes and orderlies assisted dr xeilson m fighting the fire with band extinguishers firemen hurried to the roof with hand chemical extinguishers while a lead of hose was carred up the fire escape patients below the sixth floor according to hospital attendants were unaware of the fire as no gongs were rung by the fire teams approaching the institution the fire destroyed the oils and paint 9 stored m the small house and an electric i motor used to operate the ventilating sys i tern dr xeilson said he believed the fire was caused by sparks from the motor but firemen attributed the blaze to combustion among the oils e s gilmore superintendent of the hos pital said there was no panic among the patients but refused to allow any one to enter the upper stories to learn the extent of the fire j p morgan plays bridge financier is having strenuous time at aix les bains special cable to the examiner geneva may 3 , t pierpont morgan who is accompanied by his sister mrs burns and their two friends mrs â€¢' markoe and miss f rhett of new york continues his strenuous cure at aix le3 baius he will remain there a few weeks longer mr morgan spends most of the morning at the baths the masseurs fin ish with him at luncheon time after luncheon he replies to his mail and then goes on a motoring trip after dinner the family plays cards generally bridge at oue franc the hundred points the next morning mr morgan is up at daylight for the cure which is doing him a great deal of good mayor asks efficiency favors more money for civil service commission if needed results are what mayor harrison is seek ing m police activities m Chicago and he is willing to lend a hand to accomplish them he said yesterday he reiterated his declaration of two days ago that he desires the efficiency division of the civil service commission to keep a jhei.k on ronditions and see whether the work of the commission has been lasting would you favor an additional appropriation for the efficiency division was asked ibe mayor i would lie replied if they need money they can get it mrs roach's charges fail her cross-bill is rejected list of men visitors now 19 mrs frederick lyon roach sketched when on the witness stand yes terday by an examiner staff artist wife near collapse as result of grueling-onslaught by attorneys mr mary e roash went through an ordeal such as falls tn the lot of few wom en when ou the witness stand yesterday she defended herself against charges made lv the suit for divorce filed m i lie name of her husband frederick lyon lloch scion of the family of john m roach chi cago traction magnate the only bright spot for her iv the day's proceedings was an attack on the name and character of her husband while mrs roach's attorneys were excoriating the younger roach bis wife sat opposite the table from him with a taunting smile on her face and her attorney referred to her as having the fury of a woman scorned attorney james t brady was goaded on m his attack by a ruling a few minutes before the closing addresses were begun m which the court threw mrs uoa.'h's cross bill out of ihe record for want of equity and left the woman with no lope of alimony and little hope of defeating the divorce action nineteen men now on list few women have 1-een subjected to 3 more grueling attack than the nil-day ques tioning of mrs i'.oaeh the list of men with whori she wa barged with being indiscreet was swelled to nineteen and they were meu and m reply ih ac cused her husband of nearly all the short comings known to society when did you leave your husband demanded weynouth kirkla-id attorney for the roach family m wginning the examination i didn't leave him ns the ans sr well when did he leave you he didn't ' well . oh he was just to drunk to c&tne ho le explained mr reach what did your husband tell you uont may goidon lie said tnal if i wouldn't 0 a.ound wiih him he would take her h i.d nit led visiting hf-r her bfick dem is across more power letters shown in 50,000 suit i'm your best friend wrote Chicago millionaire to chorus girl new york may sf more of the 1 4 letters postals and telegrams written by colonel edward harrison power th ciec tacular Chicago millionaire during a pe riod of two years to miss maude mittern and which now form the bas's of her 550 000 breach of promise suit were made public to-day by the showgirl plaintiff's lawyer dearest fat pal and my sweet sen sitive mud are revealed as the colonei's favorite endearing te rns in one letter undated under the latter headl*g the colonel said i was a real sight until yesterday face us well as back ob inyl that t reeu wealthy water will be the death of your sweetheart sure however r.;d such a good time am willing to suffer i think some one nipped my pin 1 must hustle now and keep v wn ex penses wrote the colonel iv n letter from st louis new mild don't go back on me because i am your best friend in v letter from the congress hotel iv Chicago the colonel said how are you fat girl si you bave saved the baby grand hurrah the following telegram was also made public the hollenden cleveland liear maude do come home am waitiug for you ed little boys beaten by strikers thugs ex convicts aid pressmen and drivers m attacks upon small lads who attempt to sell papers m the loop police arrest hoodlums whfl try to start riots m'weeny declares they will be handled without gloves socialist sheet issues incen diary * edition publishers watched by authorities men would quit unions gangs of professional thugs some of them , ex-convicts instituted a series of riots yes terday and brutally beat a number of little newsboys who tried to sell newspapers on the streets . these professional thugs are of the same stripe as the gangs of labor sluggers re cently broken up because some of tbeir leaders were killed m their own factional fights and others sent to the penitentiary as a penalty for committing murder and } other crin;es ' in their efforts to prevent not only the publication but the sale of newspapers in cluded m the Chicago local of the news paper publishers 1 association the^e men yesterday resorted to flagrant slugging tac tics and many of them were acros^ed little boys selling cop-co Â« t . after noon papers were set upon anf beaten knocked down and kicked by jja'ugs of ruffians pressmen and drivers turn sludgers that these sluggers are allied vfitli or are included among the strirf'lg press men and drivers there is not a shidow of doubt these strikers have not only re | fused to abide by the arbitration clause of 1 the pressmen's l'nlon agreement but have i resorted to slugging and intimidation j chief of police mcweeny has issued or â– ders that all notorious characters found in volved m disturbances will be jailed and that law and order will be preserved addiug fuel to the flame of dissatisfaction an incendiary sheet which has for yeari disseminated the socialistic doctrine yes terday sent inflammatory articles broad cast over the city its publishers are un der close police surveillance pedestrians would be walking along the street would see a news stand with after noon papers for sale and just as they would be purchasing a paper the little boy at the stand would be knocked down i by a man big enough to be his father . i the news stand would be tipped over the papers scattered m the street and tm j less the police were dose enough to iire , vent the boy would be kicked as he lay on the pavement . little boy is beaten soon after 4 o'clock m the afternoon * ; gang of thugs attacked the little boy is Â» charge of a stand at the southeast corner of monroe street and wabash avenue > they knocked him down scattered hie ; papers and were beating him brutally wheu policemeu stephens and sticken of the first precinct came to his rescue sticken seized one mau the others fled j and stephens mounted guard over the * newsboy a large crowd quickly withered and a riot appeared imminent policeman stepbeus had lo control trtifi , tic at this corner and at the same lime k prevent the thugs irom further attacking , the utile boy while he was watching the crowd ou wabash avenue a young hoodlum sueaked behind au automobile and by means of a battering ram agaiu upset the 1 news stand i lit v ith a blackjack the little newsboy was cut on the , i mouth and over his right eye was a luuiji . caused by a blow with a blackjack as . the news stand fell the secoud time mount ed l'oliceuiau c-eary forced his hoiic â€¢ through the crowd and seized a secoud rui | - h.n both thugs were locked up ou charge j ! of disorderly conduct policemen jacobs and c-eary also up > pea red ou the sc.jie and the street was flnnlly cleared the men a rested said their names ivi-'t charles vasillo and koc at f>e r'orthiv-'-eru railroad stj^sÃŸ another ga 7 of thugs set x_.j 4 i 1 ,' l ! lie vsbÂ»y oiid ere beating niri naÂ»n fm m police arrived and arrested eve a i fl tbey raid th'a names were 0e mm â– healev and m.se ransom both were i â– â– locked up on the cavrge of disor lerly ciÂ»n mi almost simultaneously m'^fmmr amr.ginf 1 j ' continued on 2d page 3d column 7 j___f____ft and on sunday increasing southerly r , 1 wt winds saturday shifting to northwest m m sunday t ll^ll kange of temperatures eÂ»tero*y j highest 67 __ y lowest .' 48 average 08 hjuu tuera has examined and certhusti^bl >||^ the circulation of tms publication the figures of circulation contained m bbc association's report only are , uarartkcwl association of american admcrtitmrm vo 2:00 whitehall bldg n y city

Chicago examiner saturday Chicago may 4 1912 rtlitterad m pripf dnf f"fnt delivered by ca.rier u s patent ffice * i\iv-i-i v/ni l_,lm i __ cenl . per wultl , saturday vol x no 116 a m hundreds died on titanic locked in steerage man tried to climb over the closed gates but officer beat him back says pas senger before the senate lifeboats were not properly equipped with compass and provisions swears sailor in london wreck inquiry tbw yore may 3 the charge that itmdreds of men women and children m Ã¼b steerage of the titanic were locked o their quarters while the liner was sink in wise made to chairman william alden smith of the senate investigating commit tee to-day by daniel buckley who was m the steerage buckley boarded the ti tanic at queenstown on the night of the accident i heard a noise like a severe jar he said to-day tt got out of my bunk snd felt my feet tsttlng wet the ship was leaking badly just then two sailors came running along yelling you'd better get ont nu its yon want to get drowned i started for the steerage deck then i thought of life preservers bnt did not have one so i started back bnt was driven away by the water which was up to the third or fourth step leading from our room steerage gates locked afler this i started back for the stem steerage deck i found the gates locked ne man tried to climb over them but m officer of the boat pushed him back then we all rushed forward and broke down the gate i got into lifeboat xo 0 a woman m the boat threw a shawl over me when we got on the carpathia a fire man from the titanic said he did not hink we had bit an ireberg but that we were forcing pressure that this caused the boilers to burst and that the explosion tore a bole m the side of the titanic steamer represented at inquiry london jlny o the international seamen union today demanded repre sentation at the governments inqniry into ths tuanic disaster which is being con ducted by lord mersey and five wreck commissioners at the london scottish drill hall l'pon making inquiries lord mersey ascertained that 228 members of the crew of the ill-fated titanic were union men and that 77 of these had beeu saved he thereupon granted the union's request attorney general sir rufus isaacs out lined the government's case by saying that he would introduce evidence to show that there wii dangerous ice in the lane which the titanic was traversing and that he will bring before the court evidence to show that warnings of icebergs and ice growlers were given to the titanic by the baltic and caronia on the day of the disaster he would also show the court he said that a southerly marine route was available for vessels at the time of year when ice floes and bergs made the northern channel dangerous 1 wish to emphasize to the court the importance of the fact thai after being warned of the icebergs the titanic did not educe her speed said the attorney general lifeboats not properly equipped james jewell a seaman testified that some of the lifeboats were not filled to their complement and that they were not properly equipped with compasses lights nor provisions when they were put from the sinking ship joseph scarrolt an able seaman on the titanic followed jewell on the stand bcarrott said he was put m charge of one of ibe lifeboats aboul twenty men made a rush and tried lo get into the boat ' sa id the wit ness they were foreigners and did not seem to understand what was said tc them 1 knocked down three of them with ihe boat's tiller chief officer murdoik fired several shots between the lifeboats wlili-h were swinging from the davit guys and the ship's side as warning that none should try to get into the small boats until told to do so funerals held m halifax halifax x s may 3 wholesale burial of the titanic dead lias to-day narked auother stage is the closing chap ter of the world's greatest sea disaster sixty bodies were made ready for inter u;ent m halifax cemeteries early to day end shortly after 9 o'clock the first fu neral services were beld m st mary's cathedral where a funeral mass wjpa celai brated by the rev dr foley to-day's burials were forced by the con dition of the bodies many wÂ»ie em balmed hurriedly on tte mnckuy-beunetr and these have been so affected iy the warm weather of the last two days that dr finu the medical examiner ordered their interment several of the bodies over which rervlces were held to-day were identified hut not claimed while others were prepared for interment m halifax by order of the white star officials eight die in floods near baton rouge mississippi river breaks through the levee inundating vast sugar acreage new orleans la may ::.â€” eight lives were lost to-day wheu the mississippi river broke through the levee at isor gansea twenty miles above baton rouge the flood waters are sweeping ovur the rich sngar plantations and will do great property damage m point coupee west baton rouge iberville and m the parishes to the southward the levees at baton rouge are weai anl m danger of going out according fo the reports of state engineers who with gov ernor sanders made a personal inspection of the dikes m the neighborhood of the capital to-day they assert that the wails will not hold twenty-fonr hours cairo 111 may 3 feeling grearjy en conraged that cairo will secure the s^o 000 appropriation from the government to aid m raising and strengthening the levees seven of the ten cairoites whe went to washington to battle for the assistance re turned home early this morning sunday night they will go to memphis to appear by appointment monday morniug beforu major smith m charge of the river work in this territory to get the work of re pairing the breaks m the drainage district levees started at once the government allotted 75,000 for these repairs the river marks forty-nine feet and lite-tenth at cairo to-night and barring rains wilt probably come to a stand by to-morrow night shots halt auto bandits fusillade greets four who break i drug store window 1 four robbers traveling m a high-powered automobile fled after they had thrown a padded brick through the front window of the drug store of robert l heller 455 east fiftieth street early this morning wheu a fusillade of shots was fired nt tbem the robbers stopped the car m front of the drug store and while the one who drove the machine kept the en gine running and the muffler wide open the other members of the band threw the brick through the window one of five automobile bandits was cap tured thursday night by policemen crtm mings and dolan of the lake street sta tion following the robbery of a pedestrian at west madison and loomis streets when bis accomplices turned on the power and escaped on sight of the policemeu the prisoner gave the name of frauk wolf thirty-four years old 133(1 west monroe street flower fund pair held must face trial on charge of operat ing confidence game henry mahany 769 lake avenue and his wife margaret who are said by the police to have collected money from busi ness men for more than a year on the rep resentation it was to be used to buy flow ers to decorate the graves of soldiers were held to the grand jury on charges of op erating a confidence game by municipal judge scully m the l'nglewood court yes terday they pleaded not guilty al though many ot those who had contributed sums ranging from si to 3 identified them mabany and bis wife were arrested thurs day afternoon by detectives after they had asked b coffey a saloonkeeper at hal sted and sixty-third streets to help them decorate the graves of old soldiers it is charged tbey represented that the flower fund was iv charge of the g a r city employes owe 6,000 loan agents unable to collect ask comptroller's aid loan agents it is said are having their troubles with county employes who have failed to pay their debts according to an official estimate made yesterday there are 200 men employed by the county who are constantly m debt to the loan agents one alleged agent called on deputy comp troller frank ryan yesterday and pre sented him a list of men who were in debted to him m amounts from 22 to 252 each the tolal was between 5,000 and s6.ow mr ryan told the man that he could lend him no assistance quits wife goes to jail six months says judge when hus band refuses his support the cause of rebellious husbands re ceived a setback yesterday when municipal judge walker sentenced andrew leonard | 47:;0 south marshfield avenue to fix 1 months m the bridewell for wife abandon | men i | i am goins to give you half an hour to thiuk this matter over either you will promise to support your wife or i will send you to jail said the judge it doesn't require any consideration returned leonard i simply will not sup port her six months said the court pacific steamer sinks portland ore may b the steamer george r vosburg running between as toria and tillamook ore was wrecked to-day on the spit at xebalem bay ore reports received here say the boat went down m a heavy storm while towing n barge it is feared that the crew of about ten men was lost no dÂ«*tris ara avail able the scene of the wreck being alncost tnaccesslble wayman ousts 2 aids to avenge his defeat guenther a deneen man and day backed by g&lpin are the first to go more heads are to fall state's attorney resents peas'3-deneen-busse ac tivity m governor race state attorney wayman took revenge 01 the deneen-tease-busse machine yester day for his defeat in the race for the re publican nomination for governor he mcd the ax on two assistant state's attorneys kfward s day and george h guenther whose political backing came from the iuner circles of the machine bosses deneen himself who del'ealed wayman m the gubernatorial race was gnuitber's backer and homer galpin an other machine man was the backer of day guenthÂ»r was a holdover from de ncen's own dmim they knocked him down scattered hie ; papers and were beating him brutally wheu policemeu stephens and sticken of the first precinct came to his rescue sticken seized one mau the others fled j and stephens mounted guard over the * newsboy a large crowd quickly withered and a riot appeared imminent policeman stepbeus had lo control trtifi , tic at this corner and at the same lime k prevent the thugs irom further attacking , the utile boy while he was watching the crowd ou wabash avenue a young hoodlum sueaked behind au automobile and by means of a battering ram agaiu upset the 1 news stand i lit v ith a blackjack the little newsboy was cut on the , i mouth and over his right eye was a luuiji . caused by a blow with a blackjack as . the news stand fell the secoud time mount ed l'oliceuiau c-eary forced his hoiic â€¢ through the crowd and seized a secoud rui | - h.n both thugs were locked up ou charge j ! of disorderly conduct policemen jacobs and c-eary also up > pea red ou the sc.jie and the street was flnnlly cleared the men a rested said their names ivi-'t charles vasillo and koc at f>e r'orthiv-'-eru railroad stj^sÃŸ another ga 7 of thugs set x_.j 4 i 1 ,' l ! lie vsbÂ»y oiid ere beating niri naÂ»n fm m police arrived and arrested eve a i fl tbey raid th'a names were 0e mm â– healev and m.se ransom both were i â– â– locked up on the cavrge of disor lerly ciÂ»n mi almost simultaneously m'^fmmr amr.ginf 1 j ' continued on 2d page 3d column 7 j___f____ft and on sunday increasing southerly r , 1 wt winds saturday shifting to northwest m m sunday t ll^ll kange of temperatures eÂ»tero*y j highest 67 __ y lowest .' 48 average 08 hjuu tuera has examined and certhusti^bl >||^ the circulation of tms publication the figures of circulation contained m bbc association's report only are , uarartkcwl association of american admcrtitmrm vo 2:00 whitehall bldg n y city